# Equipment Thread
**URL:** https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295
**Category:** Equipment and Reviews
**Created:** [April 3, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295 "2019-04-03T08:01:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 163
### Author:  [@Sleipnir](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Sleipnir)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 10:55am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3347 "2025-02-27T10:55:20Z")
> [@Scurbrampwoody](#):
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> It’s a sad day when an Andy Anderson flight deck gets more people’s eyes on it than a Girl x Gonz art deck.
I think Andy Anderson gets a lot of interest from the older skaters returning after a long break, especially since his first deck had a 1980s feel to it.
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### Author:  [@darthpunk](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/darthpunk)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 11:05am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3348 "2025-02-27T11:05:07Z")
Those Girl art boards are proper nice, it’s like art within art
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### Author:  [@Mike](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mike)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 11:11am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3349 "2025-02-27T11:11:44Z")
I think a couple are my clicks.
We can look at it in Rollersnakes on Saturday if you’re out? 🤣
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### Author:  [@KeithBeef](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/KeithBeef)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 12:16pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3350 "2025-02-27T12:16:49Z")
Ahh is that this weekend? Maybe. We can give it a good going over. Then not buy it.
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### Author:  [@Mike](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mike)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3351 "2025-02-27T13:48:11Z")
Might be worth waiting until no one can see us looking at the pogo curves.
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### Author:  [@Philbleasy](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Philbleasy)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3353 "2025-02-27T14:38:53Z")
Decided on a symmetrical deck, these are a few i like so please vote guys on your fav, maybe comment why?
_Poll ([view on site](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3353))_
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### Author:  [@Philbleasy](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Philbleasy)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3354 "2025-02-27T15:23:10Z")
> **[Ideal - The Best in Skateboarding Since 1991](https://www.idealbirmingham.co.uk/?srsltid=AfmBOoruxn9xhZqmDGWVRY6dQrE4JeVtq2zvlJTuXtpOY6hmfU6iI-2F)**
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> Ideal Birmingham for the best in skateboarding stocking Anti Hero, Thrasher, Palace, Hockey, Spitfire, Bones, Polar, Lakai, New Balance, Girl and more.
I missed this one off the list 🤦🏻♂️
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### Author:  [@Mike](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mike)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3355 "2025-02-27T15:28:11Z")
Just get the GirlxGonz 👍
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### Author:  [@nazoreth](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/nazoreth)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3356 "2025-02-27T15:30:19Z")
I recently bought a Girl deck to try it out and jesus fucking christ why doesn’t every company do what crailstore does? Every imaginable dimension listed in great detail with an identifier model number. So basic yet so good
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### Author:  [@Philbleasy](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Philbleasy)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3357 "2025-02-27T15:31:52Z")
> [@Mike](#):
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> Just get the GirlxGonz 👍
Mmmmmmm that is probably my fav girl/chocolate one
I do like the heroin and operas as well
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### Author:  [@Philbleasy](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Philbleasy)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3358 "2025-02-27T15:41:29Z")
> [@nazoreth](#):
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> I recently bought a Girl deck to try it out and jesus fucking christ why doesn’t every company do what crailstore does? Every imaginable dimension listed in great detail with an identifier model number. So basic yet so good
How have you found the deck?
I’ve never had or even stepped on a Girl deck
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### Author:  [@nazoreth](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/nazoreth)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3359 "2025-02-27T16:07:55Z")
Ditto, never tried one, never stepped on one
I got a G045. 8" with short wheelbase. Fairly similar nose and tail.
It arrived today and i like the shape. Medium concave. Nose looks mad short (because it’s not a modern popsicle) but that’s what I ordered so I’m interested to try ot
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### Author:  [@Mike](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mike)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3360 "2025-02-27T16:23:43Z")
My last Girl deck was great. 360 flip, landed, slipped out and it went under a tipper truck. Whole set up fucked….probably 26-27 years ago now though haha
Basketball series, I think Jovontae or Jeron. A long time ago and I smoked back then.
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### Author:  [@franc](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/franc)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3361 "2025-02-27T17:12:40Z")
The Heroin board so you support a legit SOS, or the Girl X Gonz because it’s dope.
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### Author:  [@franc](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/franc)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3362 "2025-02-27T17:15:23Z")
I skated 2 or 3 shaped Crail boards a few years ago and they were lovely. Still have 2 on ice, should skate them this spring. Love [this shape](https://cloud.crailtap.com/shapes/#skidul) and its 14 inch wheelbase.
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### Author:  [@Scurbrampwoody](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Scurbrampwoody)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3363 "2025-02-27T17:54:18Z")
I reckon 70% of my boards for the past 30 years have been Girl or Chocolate. Even when they had that stint of being on wood that everyone said sucked I didn’t care.
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### Author:  [@Mike](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mike)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3364 "2025-02-27T19:06:51Z")
G026 looks like it’d be my thang if I wanted 14”.
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### Author:  [@nazoreth](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/nazoreth)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3365 "2025-02-27T20:08:17Z")
Aren’t they still out of that Chinese wood shop just everyone realised it isn’t that bad at all just not US anymore?
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### Author:  [@Scurbrampwoody](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Scurbrampwoody)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3366 "2025-02-27T20:58:17Z")
Yeah, I think so. Seems fine to me. There was a period when they first went to a Chinese woodshop that decks did seem to be snapping more often for me. They also got flexy pretty fast. I just started riding the Pop Secret decks with the composite top ply whilst they did them. I think that’s why they were making them at the time. The wood got sorted and no more Pop Secret decks,(or Crail team riders riding Anti Hero boards instead either) The decks have been solid for ages now.
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### Author:  [@ciaran](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ciaran)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 12:08am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3368 "2025-02-28T00:08:52Z")
Do calf raises and use a skipping rope as often as possible - build up the explosive muscle power.
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